Guy,
I need help, I teied flashing a rom I made but it did not work. My phone loads the unlock boot loader screen after that the screen goes dark and does nothing. I thought I did a back up but I must have forgot I need something to bring me back to stock or to repush the whole system software. I know I am only soft bricked and not hard. Any help will be great...Thanks
here is a twrp backup of a stock phone
Stock TWRP backup
unzip to sdcard its not a flashable zip have to restore it using TWRP
I tried this and I unzipped to SD went to twrp- restore and it does not show anything. What am I doing wrong. I hate being on my Et and I want my Q back
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move the folder into the twrp folder would be my first thought
Rangerbry said:
move the folder into the twrp folder would be my first thought
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Yea you'll have to put it in the TWRP\SerialNum folder.
arrrghhh, Rangerbry
first thank you both a lot one for the help, two for the thing you guys do on here...
this is what I ended up doing downloaded the stock twrp file, unzipped it left it on my computer. Went on my phone made a backup file through twrp on my phone. took sd card out of phone put in my computer found backup file on sd changed the files from the backup to the files I unzipped put in phone restored backup and rebooted...
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arrrghhh, Rangerbry
first thank you both a lot one for the help, two for the thing you guys do on here...
this is what I ended up doing downloaded the stock twrp file, unzipped it left it on my computer. Went on my phone made a backup file through twrp on my phone. took sd card out of phone put in my computer found backup file on sd changed the files from the backup to the files I unzipped put in phone restored backup and rebooted...
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Ah, yea without ever making a backup it is probably pretty confusing as to where it should go...
Glad it's workin .
spyderkoz said:
arrrghhh, Rangerbry
first thank you both a lot one for the help, two for the thing you guys do on here...
this is what I ended up doing downloaded the stock twrp file, unzipped it left it on my computer. Went on my phone made a backup file through twrp on my phone. took sd card out of phone put in my computer found backup file on sd changed the files from the backup to the files I unzipped put in phone restored backup and rebooted...
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no problem that twrp i linked for you should be completely stock except the boot animation i forgot to change that back. i made it after a factory reset so should be good to go after a first boot
Rangerbry said:
no problem that twrp i linked for you should be completely stock except the boot animation i forgot to change that back. i made it after a factory reset so should be good to go after a first boot
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I just do not have any 3G, everything else is great
spyderkoz said:
I just do not have any 3G, everything else is great
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Often times I find performing a simple battery pull, waiting 30 seconds then, putting the battery back in and then powering on the phone will restore 3g connectivity
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shimp208 said:
Often times I find performing a simple battery pull, waiting 30 seconds then, putting the battery back in and then powering on the phone will restore 3g connectivity
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Unfortunately, at least literally speaking that's impossible with this phone in particular *g*
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Often times I find performing a simple battery pull, waiting 30 seconds then, putting the battery back in and then powering on the phone will restore 3g connectivity
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Egh Shimp208, The Photon Q has a build in battery, its not that easy to pop the back off and pop the battery..
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I just do not have any 3G, everything else is great
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hmm not sure why you wouldnt have 3g
maybe go to settings > more > mobile networks> check your on the right network
I'm still stock unrooted, but I have found I will occasionally have to cycle airplane mode to get my wifi to reconnect sometimes, maybe that will work for you.
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Sorry just got my 3g back. It wasn't anything after what I did or what ranger posted. It was the lovely towers, I didn't find out til I got to work this morning that there was an outage...
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Hey, everyone. How's it going? I have been running Gingervitis 1.1 (?) and last night I went to uninstall an app that I had installed from the market. My phone froze up and is worthless at the moment. I can boot up, but I cant do anything. I see my wallpaper and the taskbar (even it is a little off), but that is it. If I hold power and volume down while booting it goes to the menu, but it automatically chooses to update the radio. I can't choose to do anything else. Wtf? Can I fix this?
Also, the phone will ring, but I can't do anything about that either.
I appreciate any help.
Hmm not sure I can be much help but you could try and get into recovery from there, rename a file say maybe a Rom to PG05IMG so when in hboot it tries to load it? hey just trying to help here and not sure it gonna work but could try a couple more ideas until someone smarter pops in. Sure your not bricked though.
If you can get into hboot you're not bricked. It sounds like you have a PG5... file still on your sd card. Take it out of the phone and load into your computer to delete that file. Put the card back in and you should now be able to select recovery in the hboot menu.
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last i checked, a brick just sat there. so if your phone does more than set there, no it's not. it can probably be fixed. good luck.
power down your phone, take out your sd card and insert it into a computer. delete the pg#### file from the root of your sdcard. insert card in to phone, power back up.
try taking out your SD card and connecting it to computer, rename the PG05img to something else. then you should be able to hboot and get into recovery
Awesome. I'll go buy a card reader and see what I can do. I will post back in a bit.
Thanks to everyone so far.
muckymuck said:
Awesome. I'll go buy a card reader and see what I can do. I will post back in a bit.
Thanks to everyone so far.
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Oops nevermind.
blueis300 said:
Cant you just put your phone in disk drive mode instead of charge only to check your sd card and change from there.
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How would he choose disk drive? He cant unlock the phone.
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How would he choose disk drive? He cant unlock the phone.
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uhh oh **** guess ill edit my stupidity post lol
After your able to get back into recovery. Try to run logcat from adb and see where it errors out after you reboot. If you can determine the broken app, you can uninstall it from adb. If not just reinstall the Rom from recovery. If all fails wipe and install clean. Good luck
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After your able to get back into recovery. Try to run logcat from adb and see where it errors out after you reboot. If you can determine the broken app, you can uninstall it from adb. If not just reinstall the Rom from recovery. If all fails wipe and install clean. Good luck
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Hopefully he made a recent backup and can just restore that.
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Thanks everyone. All is well now. I renamed PG05IMG and went from there as suggested. I went ahead and installed BAMF Sense 3 instead of going back to Gingervitis.
I had not backed up... oops. No worries though, but I will do it now.
Thanks again
muckymuck said:
Thanks everyone. All is well now. I renamed PG05IMG and went from there as suggested. I went ahead and installed BAMF Sense 3 instead of going back to Gingervitis.
I had not backed up... oops. No worries though, but I will do it now.
Thanks again
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Good deal.
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One more "Oh noooo... Wait really? WHEW!!!! It's not bricked afterall." save on XDA.
They saved me once too. Glad you're up and running. Patience is key and so many people around here seem to be so quick to send the phone back, blame the developer and post how the rom bricked their phone, then start a thread about "Rumor Verizon is tracing all phones that spontaneously combusted to rooting. Am I getting Busted?"
Again, nice job on the save
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I have tried to flash a wifi patch that was meant to solve problems with connections, and when i chose it from the list in Rom manager, when it rebooted into recovery it got stuck on the HTC logo, but before i flashed it. Now, i have a very old backup that i restored but i want everything that i had before my device couldnt boot itself. i backed up through recovery my current rom that i wasnt able to boot, and i wonder if there is some way to fix it with the files of .img that i have backed up. I know that the patch was responsible for this error because after i restored to an old backup i tried it there aswell and i got the same result doing the same thing...
A link to the topic of the patch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051674
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I have tried to flash a wifi patch that was meant to solve problems with connections, and when i chose it from the list in Rom manager, when it rebooted into recovery it got stuck on the HTC logo, but before i flashed it. Now, i have a very old backup that i restored but i want everything that i had before my device couldnt boot itself. i backed up through recovery my current rom that i wasnt able to boot, and i wonder if there is some way to fix it with the files of .img that i have backed up. I know that the patch was responsible for this error because after i restored to an old backup i tried it there aswell and i got the same result doing the same thing...
A link to the topic of the patch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051674
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Hmmm... one of those things huh? The only way I know is to restore the corrupt nandroid and then without restarting, flash the original ROM.zip of your rom (the one that you first used to do a clean install) right on top of this while in recovery. What this will do is to replace the files from the patch with the original files that camera with the ROM.
Try it and post your results.
And please get into the habit of creating nandroid backups before flashing anything...no matter how small the patch is or how confident you are that nothing will go wrong...
Hope this helps.
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enigmaamit said:
Hmmm... one of those things huh? The only way I know is to restore the corrupt nandroid and then without restarting, flash the original ROM.zip of your rom (the one that you first used to do a clean install) right on top of this while in recovery. What this will do is to replace the files from the patch with the original files that camera with the ROM.
Try it and post your results.
And please get into the habit of creating nandroid backups before flashing anything...no matter how small the patch is or how confident you are that nothing will go wrong...
Hope this helps.
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To do so i must access my SD card which i cant do at the moment... any way accessing it when the device cant boot itself on.
Astrixone said:
To do so i must access my SD card which i cant do at the moment... any way accessing it when the device cant boot itself on.
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Yes. Use a card reader...
Or just use 'toggle usb storage' from the recovery menu...
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enigmaamit said:
Yes. Use a card reader...
Or just use 'toggle usb storage' from the recovery menu...
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Thank you very much , i just wasted an hour in order to access my sd card and it was under my nose the whole time... Now i solved everything.
Astrixone said:
Thank you very much , i just wasted an hour in order to access my sd card and it was under my nose the whole time... Now i solved everything.
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Good. And in that case its advisable you add [solved] as prefix to your thread title...
Plus I think you should develop the habit of using the thanks button rather than typing it out...
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ok, so a few days ago i was flashing the G2x weapon rom onto my rooted G2x, but while i was in the clockwork mod to flash it it froze on me, i left it like that for an hour or so, but it didnt work, so i took the battery out. now whenever i turn it on, it loads the LG screen, then nothing, the screen stays turned on, but its black, ive tried to boot it into recovery mode but that does not work either. What should i do?
Did you do One-Click NVFlash>? if u used Rom Manager you probably fake flashed and thats why its not working for you. You should use NVflash followt he steps and boot up into recover and restore a back up. GOod Luck
thanks ill try that
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Did you do One-Click NVFlash>? if u used Rom Manager you probably fake flashed and thats why its not working for you. You should use NVflash followt he steps and boot up into recover and restore a back up. GOod Luck
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+1
Also try holding the vol down+pwr for longer than usual might just be being difficult
Making bad decision's one at a time.
so when i get into nvflash it says usb not found,
i did all the steps, and had it all done, but it dosent find my phone
Did u install the drivers correctly? That's probably the problem if it says USB is not found. I believe there is a video about how to install the drivers. Ill look for the video now
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Sorry for the double post, and here is a video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzk92rV6k4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I used Linux to nvflash mine so I haven't used this method but I'm sure a lot of other people have.
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moeahmad1995 said:
Sorry for the double post, and here is a video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzk92rV6k4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I used Linux to nvflash mine so I haven't used this method but I'm sure a lot of other people have.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
This was written for Windows users, I followed this one myself, pretty straight-forward, and "idiot proof". (If anything can be truly idiot proof. Cynical, who, me?)
so, ive flashed my phone through nvflash and i got clockwork mod up and running, but whenever i select the file to flash that is on my SD card, it says no files found. i even tried going to my backup on the clockwork file, and nothing.
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so, ive flashed my phone through nvflash and i got clockwork mod up and running, but whenever i select the file to flash that is on my SD card, it says no files found. i even tried going to my backup on the clockwork file, and nothing.
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Since changing to Nvflash, did you download the rom you want to install and transfer it to the phone from your computer. Using Rom Manager it may not have left a copy on your phone.
If you cant hook up the SD card to the computer, get an external SD card and make sure u've installed clockwordmod with external sd, hook it up to a laptop with an SD card slot, and put it in , then take the mini sd and pop it in your phone, then boot up and that should do it good luck! atleast now your 1 step closer to recovering your phone
Ughh hate,seeing this happen...hope u flashed nV..all the best
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Hope you didn't brick your phone.
No you did not brick your phone. Rom manager downloads the file to sdcard/clockworkmod/downloads. Look there for the file. Only if you download a rom from your browser does it go to externalsdcard/downloads
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Ok so I got a little flash happy today and during the course of it I messed up my IMEI to all symbols. I went and reflashed everything about 10 times and tried to restore my efs backup from my card.
I guess that my efs backup became messed up because none of the times has it fixed my IMEI like it has in the past. I have another efs backup on the sd card and I remember reading somewhere that I can manually push the files.
I just cannot figure out what to push to restore the IMEI back to normal. I have pushed the EFS backup tar and got data back but with my IMEI still all symbols.
Can anyone tell me what files to push? I would greatly appreciate it
Have you flashed the efs_restore zip? I think there is a method posted in FB's unlocker thread.
Yes I have tried flashing the efs_restore zip so many times. I have no idea what happened on why it is not working. I have tried every MTD rom to date and I have always used the restore without an issue.... until today, when everything just stopped working. I do not get any errors during the restore zip and it appears it works until I boot my phone and check my IMEI
Maybe you just need to go back to kj6 via heimdall.
If you have a backup if your efs (the efs folder itself) you can just copy to the root directory and overwrite the corrupted one then reboot. It's the easiest way to fix it if you have a copy if the folder
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You didn't try going back to stock yet? Tisk tisk. Do that. Check that your signal/IMEI works on a stock rom, then flash AOKP from that, then flash CM9 or MIUIv4 after that. AOKP has the updater.sh fix that allows you to flash directly from BML so do that first.
Lol I was going to but I was at work when it happened. Thats what i did when i got home. I knew I could go back to stock but I knew I had read a way to do it without going back so I really was more curious that I could not figure it out. Going back was really painless and fixed the issue.
I was more looking for the info posted above on how to do so manually. Thanks for the info... now I know for the future ha. I will give out thanks and add solved to thread title when I get to a computer. Thanks everyone
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Lol I was going to but I was at work when it happened. Thats what i did when i got home. I knew I could go back to stock but I knew I had read a way to do it without going back so I really was more curious that I could not figure it out. Going back was really painless and fixed the issue.
I was more looking for the info posted above on how to do so manually. Thanks for the info... now I know for the future ha. I will give out thanks and add solved to thread title when I get to a computer. Thanks everyone
Hi I had the same issue before and what I did was manually push the efs folder from my sd and then powered off my device. Then I took the battery out and held the power bottom with battery out for 10 sec to drain remaining charge on the motherboard. Then popped the battery back in powered it up and walaaa my imei came back try it won't hurt :thumbup:
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I unlocked and rooted my Nexus the day I got it, but today I decided to finally flash a ROM. I installed CWM through the Rom Manager app, backed up my EFS, and then hit Factory Reset. It started, but then froze. After waiting a while, I decided to force shut it down, which wasn't such a great idea. I can turn my phone on, but the entire SD Card directory seems to be gone, and I have no signal, even after restoring my EFS backup with the zip from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2510966. CWM can't access any backups, or anything on the SD Card. What are my options? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You probably just deleted your SD card partition. I'm not sure its gone forever but you can try flashing a factory image
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You probably just deleted your SD card partition. I'm not sure its gone forever but you can try flashing a factory image
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Alright, how would go about getting it onto there? Thanks for the help
Static251 said:
Alright, how would go about getting it onto there? Thanks for the help
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Follow this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
This option is very easy and quick. You will lose everything on the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513937
Why would you turn your device off during this. Why not just wait it out?
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